Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-73). / To determine whether the establishment of a dedicated obstetric and neonatal flying squad resulted in improved performance within the setting of a major metropolitan area. The Cape Town metropolitan service of the Emergency Medical Services was selected for a retrospective review of the transit times for the newly implemented Flying Squad programme. Data were imported from the Computer Aided Dispatch programme. Dispatch, Response, Mean Transit and Total Pre-hospital times, relating to the obstetric and neonatal incidents was analysed for 2005 and 2008.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/11848 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | De Vries, Shaheem |
| Contributors | Wallis, Lee |
| Publisher | University of Cape Town, Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Emergency Medicine |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master Thesis, Masters, MPhil |
| Format | application/pdf |
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